to Henry, count or duke of Friuli. It was written about 795, and consists of sixty-six chapters upon
the virtues to be practiced and the vices to be shunned by the duke. The style is excellent. The work
was once claimed for Augustin, but this is now conceded to be an error. Nine of the chapters (x.-xv.
xvii.-xix. ) are copied from The contemplative life, a work by Pomerius, a Gallican churchman of
the fifth century. On the other hand, chapters xx.-xlv. have been plagiarized in an Admonitio ad
filium spiritualem which was long supposed to be by Basil the Great.^1096
(5) Epistles. (a) To Heistulfus,^1097 who had murdered his wife on a charge of adultery
preferred against her by a man of bad character. It was written from Frankfort, in 794, during the
council mentioned above. Paulinus sternly rebukes Heistulfus for his crime, and tells him that if
he would be saved he must either enter a monastery or lead a life of perpetual penitence, of which
he gives an interesting description. The letter passed into the Canon Law about 866.^1098 It has been
falsely attributed to Stephen V.^1099 (b) To Charlemagne,^1100 an account of the council of Altinum^1101
in 803. (c) Fragments of three other letters to Charlemagne, and of one (probably) to Leo III.^1102
(6) Verses. (a) The rule of faith,^1103 a poem of one hundred and fifty-one hexameters, devoid
of poetical merit, in which along with a statement of his belief in the Trinity and the Incarnation
Paulinus gives a curious description of Paradise and of Gehenna, and to the latter sends the heretics,
several of whom he names. (b) Hymns and verses,^1104 upon different subjects. (c) A poem on duke
Eric.^1105
(7) A Mass.^1106
(8) The preface to a tract upon repentance^1107 which enjoins confession to God in tender
words.
(9) A treatise upon baptism.^1108§ 159. Alcuin.
I. Beatus Flaccus Albinus seu Alcuinus: Opera omnia, Migne, Tom. C. CI., reprint of the ed. of
Frobenius. Ratisbon, 1772, 2 vols. fol. Monumenta Alcuiniana, a P. Jaffé preparata, ed.
Wattenbach et Dümmler (vol. vi. Bibliotheca rerum germanicarum). Berlin, 1773. It contains
his letters, poems and life of Willibrord. His poems (Carmina) have been separately edited by
(^1096) Col. 206, 212 n. a.
(^1097) Ibid. col. 181-186.
(^1098) Smith and Wace, Dict. Christ. Biog. s. v. Heistulfus.
(^1099) Madrisius in Migne, l.c. col. 185.
(^1100) Ibid. col. 511-516.
(^1101) The present Altino, a town on the Adriatic, near Venice.
(^1102) Migne, l.c. col. 503-510.
(^1103) De regula fidei, ibid. col. 467-471
(^1104) Hymni et rhythmi, ibid. col. 479-504.
(^1105) De Herico duce, ibid. col. 685-686.
(^1106) Ibid. col. 625-627.
(^1107) Ibid. col. 627-628.
(^1108) Not in Migne, but in Mansi, Tom. XIII.